Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness
Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness is a short, coming-of-age yuri visual novel about two former friends who escape detention in order to celebrate the Sunflower Festival. Set in the magical city of…
Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness is an adventure developed by Yangyang Mobile, released 19 April 2021 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness is
Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness is an adventure game developed by Yangyang Mobile and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Audrey Clary, heiress and LeFay Academy's brightest alchemy student, is about to have her first and worst detention experience of all time. It's bad enough that she has to stay in detention during Sunflower Day—it's even worse that she's stuck in detention with the one and only Marion LaRue, the self-proclaimed “Chaotic Fireball Legend” of LeFay Academy. Marion LaRue is not having a fun day at all. What was meant to be a harmless little fire turned into an explosion that has her stuck in detention, missing out on one of the rare opportunities for her to enjoy life outside the academy. And of course she just had to be stuck with Audrey Clary, of all the high class LeFay students she could be…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness launched on 19 April 2021, within three weeks of Resident Evil Village, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Returnal and Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Village, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Returnal, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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